Week 3

This third week saw us doing our best to speed up the reviewing process. With only five weeks left to go and a myriad of films left to look over we find ourselves pressed for time. Time. This intangible thing finds itself impeding on so many processes. If only we had more time to work more thoroughly, if only time wasn't causing the films to decay more quickly, if only time wasn't a factor the things we could get done.

We have decided not to worry about the edge codes of the films and focus more on if they are fading and if the titles on the cans match the titles on the films. We're still seeing whether they are black and white or color and whether they have sound or if they are silent. But overall we have decided to narrow our focus so that we can make it through as much of the collection as possible, and then see if we can find the films still in good condition a new home.

One of the new things I learned this week was that there is more than one type of sound that can be on film. I don't remember the name of it right now but the lines of the audio don't run along the film but are vertical instead causing a striped look on beside the film.

Three weeks down and five to go. Time is tough competitor and in the end always wins, one way or another. But fight we must and fight we will.